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An online travel booking company based in APAC

Supporting Infrastructure (AD, Certs, DNS, WSUS) Monitoring (SCOM, Other, Custom) Remote Desktop Gateway Dev/StageProduction CI & Deployment (Team City) Web Apps, Services, and SharePoint Web Apps, Services, and SharePoint

“We are extremely pleased with our selection of the Windows Azure platform. The capabilities, performance, scale, and cost enable the Ascend team to do more with less.” “We wanted to spend less time managing servers and infrastructure and more time developing features which provide value to our customers, and we thought that Azure would make this possible.”

“We needed to take a new approach and Windows Azure Virtual Machines provided the right solution for our business.”

Windows Azure Cornerstone enroll connect

CHALLENGE: Fork-lift an existing ASP.NET/AJAX application with a scaled out web frontend, a SQL 2008 backend, and integrating with third party service providers from a local hosting company to Azure IaaS

Management Server Active Directory Load Balanced Endpoint Public Port 80/443 Private Port 80/443 VNET Galileo Sabre Amadeus Blob Storage Disks are spread across multiple storage accounts for performance SQL Backups (.bak files) kept external to vhd Delegated per-tenant admin via RDP HRG Web VMs – services: - IIS web sites - Integration Gateway (custom) Cloud Service (tenant specific) SQL Server 2008 End User